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Fantastic Fest is back, which means the best time of the year for genre filmmaking is upon us once again. I’m here to give you the full rundown of the ones that have me the most excited from a festival full of surprises, premieres, and potential favorites.
Read MoreAlexander Ullom’s debut is a smart and existential thriller that’s exactly what you’d hope for from an indie debut.
Read MoreMaybe if our “Idiots” had more fun on this road trip, it would have made the ending hit a little harder. But, Blair’s scattershot comedy is too all over the place for the audience to take anything significant away.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 9/4-9/10.
Read MoreHope is absolutely worth rolling the dice on, assuming you can deal with its caveats when the time comes.
Read MoreFor a solid twenty years, Tom Cruise consistently hit with audiences and critics alike thanks to his steadfast decision to work with the best directors in the industry, resulting in one of the most prolific and successful rosters of films Hollywood has ever seen. Then he jumped on Oprah’s couch and called Matt Lauer glib.
Read MoreI Want Your Sex lives with one foot in reality and one firmly planted in the surreal, ready to shift into an animated dream sequence at any turn, and you should see it while you can, if you can, wherever you can.
Read MoreOne’s reaction to After Last Season might be to laugh at first, as the lines between good and bad start to blur, but I found my laughter turned into curiosity and, searching through the confusion rather than being just tickled by it, I found the artistry of the film.
Read MoreThe Legend of the Stardust Brothers feels universal. More than brothers, they are the heroes with a thousand faces: the rock band: the movie.
Read MoreInsidious: Out of the Further is that rare sixth entry in a horror franchise that happens to be the best.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 8/28-9/3.
Read MoreLike all good films about film, Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is obsessed with looking: who's looking, and how they’re looking.
Read MoreSkweezy Jibbs Makes a Movie is a testament to the fact that regardless of a movie’s quality, the world is better for having more real art in it, straight from the soul.
Read MoreIt’s hard to remember now, but before Tom Cruise decided that hanging off the Burj Khalifa and the sides of airplanes was the proper way to entertain his audience, for the first 25 years of his career, the actor had been focused on director and auteur driven projects.
Read MoreThis week in Austin screenings 8/21-8/27.
Read MoreAfter a lost decade of madness, The Godfather of Punk Cinema returns to the screen with his 8th feature, NUMBSKULL REVOLUTION, filmed in Marfa, TX and Santa Fe, NM.
Read MoreThis might seem like an obvious statement, but for a filmmaker synonymous with blockbuster movies, Steven Spielberg has rarely, if ever, made something impersonal in his 50 year career. And Disclosure Day is perhaps the most personal blockbuster he’s made in 20 years.
Read MoreCruel Jaws feels dangerous in a fun way, like watching a friend spray graffiti on a government building. It doesn’t matter that the graffiti is incomprehensible trash, it’s exhilarating and fun in the moment.
Read MoreOne Night Only knows that it’s a silly, trashy, and charming romantic-comedy starring two very game actors who are over qualified for this kind of thing and should probably have some serious talks with their agents.
Read MoreDavid Robert Mitchell gives us a dino movie with a patina of ‘80s and ‘90s nostalgia that doesn’t do much to cover paper-thin storylines and characters.
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